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USorb-DAC team is the winner of 2024 Carbon Capture Prize!

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The Carbon Capture Innovation Prize was launched to accelerate and reward research in the field of carbon capture materials, and includes a state-of-the-art DVS Carbon instrument lab package. In a remarkable display of innovation, our team has once again showcased its leadership in carbon capture technology. A groundbreaking research proposal from our team has received high praise from a distinguished panel of experts. The project aims to expedite the transition to a Net-Zero carbon economy by creating an open-access experimental protocol. Among the other finalists were esteemed institutions such as Arizona State University (USA), Avnos (USA), CICECO (Portugal), Georgia Institute of Technology (USA), and Tsinghua University (China), underscoring the global competition in this critical field.

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Prof. Jeffrey Reimer receives AIChE’s 2023 Warren K. Lewis Award for ChE education

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Prof. Jeffrey Reimer received the prestigious Warren K. Lewis Award at the 2023 AIChE annual meeting, November 5th –10th in Orland, Florida. He is being recognised for outstanding contributions to chemical engineering education based on accomplishments in classroom teaching, course development, authorship of teaching texts, and departmental chairmanship, as well as excellence in research. More details can be found here.

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Special Seminar: Big Data in Chemical Engineering: Science Beyond Understanding

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Prof. Berend Smit and Prof. Susana Garcia gave a talk at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on September 13, 2023. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are the ideal playground for data science in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. MOFs are crystalline materials consisting of a metal node and an organic linker. By combining different metal nodes and organic linkers, chemists can synthesize infinite materials for applications ranging from gas separation, gas storage, sensing, catalysis, etc. The holy grain of MOF synthesis is to design an optimal MOF for a given application. There are some fundamental reasons why we are still far from this goal. Chemical design space is infinite, and all possible MOFs are impossible to screen, experimentally or computationally. In addition, we need

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Raquel Maray | SRUK Intern | A Summer in Scotland

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I am a 1st year undergraduate Chemistry student at the University of Oviedo. I am passionate about Chemistry since the first time I was in contact with the subject. Since then, I have always dreamed of spending my summer in a laboratory and thanks to Prof. Susana García my dream came true. She gave me the opportunity to join the Research Centre for Carbon Solutions (RCCS) group for a month as an intern. My internship was part of Susana’s SRUK Award where she aims to promote girls in Science and Engineering.As a part of the team, I was able to participate in their research as they investigate materials for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). Specifically, I learned how to characterise

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USorb-DAC: ground-breaking research in fight against climate change

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Heriot-Watt University has received $2M funding from the “Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment” to find materials that can remove carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the air and can drastically reduce the energy intensity and cost of the Direct Air Capture (DAC) process, so that it can scale rapidly and contribute to fighting climate change.

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